![]() He said that he once did “an interview a week” to keep in the headlines, but since getting married and becoming a father he preferred to live a more private life. McCartney suggested that the stories had begun as he had adopted a lower public profile recently. The interview took place at the singer’s High Park Farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. On 24 October McCartney agreed to speak to the BBC’s Chris Drake. Starr told the Bennett: “If people are gonna believe it, they’re gonna believe it. The following day he interviewed Ringo Starr, Derek Taylor, Neil Aspinall, photographer Iain Macmillan, McCartney’s tailor and barber, and members of Apple group White Trash. The station’s John Small also spoke to John Lennon, who sounded bewildered and amused by the story: “What did we do, stuff him and shave him? How could we do it? I don’t understand what it’s all about.”Ī reporter from New York’s WMCA, Alex Bennett, arrived in London on 22 October. WKNR’s Russ Gibb spoke to Derek Taylor, and to someone else who claimed to be McCartney but was in fact Tony Bramwell. The statement did little to quell the intrigue, and Apple continued to be bombarded with calls from reporters. McCartney gave a line borrowed from Mark Twain: “Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Paul McCartney travelled to his Scottish farm on 22 October, and Peter Brown called him to ask for a statement that could be given to the press. Reporters attempted to contact The Beatles for their responses. Towards the middle of October it had broken across the Atlantic. It quickly snowballed, and was heavily featured on the Detroit radio station MKNR. The ’Paul is Dead’ myth first surfaced in print in the 17 September 1969 edition of the Times-Delphic, the newspaper of the Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
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